St. Francis of Assisi Dream

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A few weeks ago my mom had a dream her whole house was shaking and the nail in the crucifix that hangs near the entry was wiggling out, then St. Francis of Assisi appeared and pushed the nail back in and told her everything would be fine.

Should we hold any stock to dreams with saints and their messages or are they just dreams and dismiss them as such?. Today is his feast day and yesterday i suggested we say a St. Francis of Assisi novena because of the dream and we happen to be experiencing a lot of stress at work . only to find out that today is his feast day. are these just coincidence or is there some divine work going on?
 
when i have dreams like these. (ive had my own Virgin Mary dreams) i take them quite seriously. i believe that God could speak to us through our dreams. He works in mysterious ways! and in the Bible it says something about men having visions. ( i dont have the exact verse) but ofcourse there are just plain old meaningless dreams most of the time. based on your post i think your dream could mean something. mabye St Francis is watching out for you 😃
 
I absolutely do think these kind of dreams are VERY meaningful, and directly inspired by God or the Angels and Saints.

People for thousands of years have acknowledged this, only in this century will you get mocked for thinking such things.

I’ve had many dreams. I usually have 2-3 non-sense dreams per night that I can vividly remember each morning. I can usually control my dreams. I can usually choose what I want to dream about, simply by thinking of it over and over again before falling asleep.

But these kind of dreams, I have absolutely no control over. I cannot have them even when I will my hardest to have them. I can only have them when God permits me to have them.

Unfortunately the dreams like these that I tend to have the most are those inspired by evil spirits, rather than good. But God has a reason for permitting me to see these things. Sleep is an excellent time for spirits to influence you, both good and bad. You are so vulnerable. You have no defence. You suspend all belief, you disregard all physical laws. You open your ears, your heart, your mind. You’re like a child. You’re almost helpless. If God tries to talk to you when you are wide awake, you will either likely ignore Him, or you simply won’t be able to recognize Him. Your ears are burdened by the noises of this world, and your vision is clouded by the structures of this earth. Your conscious will, when you are awake, is overpowering. But when you’re asleep it’s a different story. You are exposed. Your body may be sleeping, but your soul is wide awake.
 
I think I read somewhere in the Baltimore Catachism not to take stock in dreams. I looked it up… this is what it said:

Lesson 30: ON THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

319 Q. Do those who make use of spells and charms, or who believe in dreams, in mediums, spiritists, fortune tellers, and the like, sin against the First Commandment?

A. Those who make use of spells and charms, or who believe in dreams, in mediums, spiritists, fortune tellers, and the like, sin against the First Commandment, because they attribute to creatures perfections which belong to God alone.

“Dreams” are caused by the mind being at work while the body is sleeping or at rest. The mind never sleeps; it is always awake and working. Thus when we are asleep the imagination, without the reason to guide it, mixes together a number of things we have seen, heard, or thought of, and gives us strange scenes and pictures. Sometimes what we dream of seems to happen; but that is only because we dream so much that it would be strange if none of the things ever happened. We will generally dream about whatever was on our mind shortly before. We read in the Holy Scriptures that God at times made known His will to certain persons by dreams; as when the king of Egypt dreamt of the great famine that was to come; or when the angel appeared in sleep to St. Joseph, telling him to take Our Lord into Egypt, where Herod the king could not kill him. (Matt. 2).

The dreams mentioned in the Holy Scripture were more frequently visions than dreams. In a vision the things we see are really present, whereas in dreams they are not, but we imagine they are. God no longer makes use of dreams as a means of communicating with His creatures, because His Church will make known to us His will. He sometimes, however, makes known certain things to His holy servants on earth in a very special and private manner: as, for example, when Our Lord appeared to Saint Margaret Mary and told her He would like to have the devotion to the Sacred Heart established. We must always believe what the Church tells us God has made known to it; but when holy people tell us that God revealed special things to them, we are not obliged to believe what they say, unless the Church confirms it. I say we are not obliged–that is, we may if we please; but we would not be heretics and commit sin if we did not believe all the revelations and wonderful things we find recorded in the lives of saints, though they may all be true.

Hope that helps answer your question.
 
I’ve had two dreams where I’ve distinctly felt God’s grace just like I have in waking life. I would say don’t disregard them. It sounds like St. Francis is watching over you and making sure that nail didn’t fall out and Jesus to fall from your family life.
 
We are forbidden to “believe” in dreams, meaning we are not to see them as predicting the future. The vast majority of dreams we have are simply our subconscious mind working things out while we sleep. But once in a great while, we may have a dream that seems to be a message from God. Not that long ago, I had a dream that my deceased uncle was in bed suffering from a festering wound in his ear. Other people were supposed to be taking care of him, but they weren’t. My uncle touched my arm, looked at me with great love in his eyes and said, “You know how to pray.” Since I am the only Catholic in my family, I got the feeling that God was allowing my uncle to ask me for prayers. So I prayed for him. Even if it wasn’t really a message from God, it certainly didn’t hurt to pray for my uncle. I think your mother’s dream could have been a message of comfort–that she should unite her sufferings with those of Jesus on the cross and in doing so everything will be okay. I don’t think the devil would ever give us a dream that would point us to the cross or cause us to pray for someone.
 
angird said:
A few weeks ago my mom had a dream her whole house was shaking and the nail in the crucifix that hangs near the entry was wiggling out, then St. Francis of Assisi appeared and pushed the nail back in and told her everything would be fine.

Should we hold any stock to dreams with saints and their messages or are they just dreams and dismiss them as such?. Today is his feast day and yesterday i suggested we say a St. Francis of Assisi novena because of the dream and we happen to be experiencing a lot of stress at work . only to find out that today is his feast day. are these just coincidence or is there some divine work going on?
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Sounds like a nice communication from Saint Francis, to me. But really, only the person having the dream can say, IMO. One criteria I use, is that dreams that are sent, are very real, and you remember them more like something you actually did, instead of dreams where they fade or when you try to tell them, they jump around in weird ways and don’t make sense. Sent dreams are, I think, coherent, vivid and memorable. And they often bring you peace.

Hey, what did Saint Francis look like? Could you ask her?
 
Julia_Mae said:
Do you have a reference for this from anything out of the Vatican? It’s not in the Catechism that I can find.
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It is in the Baltimore Catechism, but not the current CCC. I do not believe that “dreams”, as used in this thread, is mentioned by the CCC, at least as far as I can find. Now, as far as “believing dreams” goes, yes, other posters are correct when they say that dreams are composed of things which we have seen, heard, or thought of during the day. (I believe Freud called the elements in the dream that can be traced to things seen, heard, etc. “day residues”.) I’ll go further to say that we can “believe” in dreams in the sense that we will get a good idea of what we ourselves are thinking about people, places, or things. For example, people that are in our dreams are not acting as themselves, but rather, they are acting as we believe they would act. Thus, by studying our dreams, we may get a better handle on our own feelings or thoughts. Yeah, it really sounds Freudian, but I think this is an area where he was probably right. That being said, I do believe that sometimes there is heavenly influence in dreams. I don’t think that we should totally discount things like the St. Francis dream. More than likely, however, the stress that you are having at or about work, is manifesting itself during your sleep. Anxiety is a powerful influence in our lives and is constantly inserting itself in our dreams. When your house is shaking, you may feel that your world is coming unglued. Perhaps you believe that only divine intervention will help to correct your problems; thus, St. Francis comes to the rescue. Bottom line? You can “believe”, i.e. use, your dreams to analyze your own personality. Using dreams to predict the future, etc. is, indeed, verboten.
 
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